Trade soul for consciousness.

But I think from the perspective of this episode, we're to accept that it is their souls in San Junipero regardless of the possibility of it.

I understand that imminent death is terrifying no matter what one's personal beliefs are, and I understand why Kelly made the choice that she did. I just didn't want her to.

I think the fact that they remember events in San Junipero after their five hour stints shows that it's their consciousness in the simulation, not just copies like it would be in the real world if we had the technology.

I'm going to get a lot of smack for this, but I hated the ending. And I wanted the episode to embrace what Kelly was hinting at in her final speech: that choosing to stay in San Junipero is kind of a faithless, cowardly thing to do.

But in Westworld you aren't getting diseases or suffering health problems. There are zero consequences at stake here. For me to believe that a huge amount of people would pay a huge amount of money to do something as banal as "live in the real world," one would need to establish a lack of real world outside that park.…

But you're simply describing prostitution. That's not exactly such a rare trade.

Clearly the world the show takes place in is a vastly different place than we have now.

I think you're exactly right, and I was complaining about this last week. I can see people paying a lot of money for a game. But so far, we've only seen two people understand that there even IS a game to be played. The brother-in-law yells that it's "just a game," but what's bothering me is that HE isn't actually…

I loved the reveal in the waiting room that all of Francis's excuses for not getting a gallery were actually Robert's excuses. It was a nice nod to a reason she had an affair. Married to a husband that doesn't support her dreams.

THANK YOU.

I think the equivalent would be a cosplay cruise. Are there people who would pay $4000 a day to dress up and play pretend on a cruise? Sure. But that's actually a very small amount of people when you compare the numbers.

I understand what's going on, I'm just disagreeing with the show's stance of 1200 people daily spend $40,000 to shoot and have sex with robots. Especially considering that none aside from MIB and White Hat are involved with some kind of strategy. I can see people spending good money on a really amazing ARG. I can see…

Nothing. And that's something that's bothering me about this show.

While watching this episode, I was able to nail down what was bothering me last week. When poorly written brother-in-law shoots a robot and White Hat gets angry, BIL argues that it's just a game. I actually jumped off my sofa and yelled "It's not a fucking game, it's a fucking TOY!"

Actually, I think that's a perfect interpretation of the episode's message.

I agree completely.

Maybe I'm just projecting my intense distaste for public shaming and group-think.

I completely agree. The sheer amount of humiliation would be pretty catastrophic for the average person. And I'll be honest: I'd probably rob a bank to keep something like filmed masturbation off the internet.

Beautifully put!